Buescher frustrated and should be, he'll get his win though.

Everyone is emotional today

DALE WHY DID YOU DO THAT pic.twitter.com/kfEF129QLi

— Bailey🇸🇪🏎️💙🍉 (@nyooooom13) May 12, 2024

What a freaking awesome race

Chris Buescher is not happy with Tyler Reddick after their battle for the lead at Darlington. https://t.co/8aiOkRsNVH pic.twitter.com/rxuCvf5rPA

— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) May 12, 2024

Can someone explain to this newbie what the sticker on the door Buescher is referring to?

A handful of years ago Nascar began putting checkered flag stickers on the cars of race winners for each race won that season. The comment is basically acknowledging Reddick already has a sticker (winner this year), meaning he's locked into the playoffs and Buescher isn't.

Gotcha- that's actually what I was thinking. Thanks!

Chris Buescher said he tries to race a certain way but he might have to change as he has come up empty the last two weeks in fierce battles (he obviously was much more upset this week than at Kansas). pic.twitter.com/9auXaFw4BS

— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) May 12, 2024

A Buescher heel turn would be awesome but I don't think he has it in him. Too good of a guy.

Man, that was so fun yesterday. I started as a Ryan Blaney guy, but as I watch every race, I'm starting to feel myself starting to pull for guys like Ross Chastain and Tyler Reddick. Not sure what that says about me, but I think I just like that aggressive style of racing.

A little bit of (dated) news about next season's new media rights deal that goes into effect...

First 19 races of the year will be with Fox

Next 5 will be with Prime Video + Amazon prime will hold exclusive rights to all practice and qualifying sessions for the first 19 races except Daytona + all star race.

Next 5 will be on TNT who last aired a NASCAR race in 2014

NBC will pick up the final 14 races of the season on NBC/USA

FS1 will televise all 23 Truck series races and the CW now has exclusive rights to all Xfinity races.

...(now the new news)...

The final 3 races of the Prime schedule will be used for seeding of a new in-season tournament. The top 32 drivers will be seeded NCAA march madness style, where they will go on a 5 game head to head elimination run during the TNT races, with the winner taking home $1 million.

Oh FFS. Fox should have just bid for the whole thing.

I can't wait to see what combo of idiots Amazon trots out there.

TNT hired Dale Jr to the broadcast team for their 5, and he'll also be featured for qualifying/practice coverage on streaming for amazon.

I dont' believe any other announcements have been made for either of the new platforms.

The in-season tournament was something that Denny Hamlin unofficially did last season through his podcast and Dirty Mo Media. Glad to see it pick up some traction. Suspect the NBA in-season tourney's success helped green light it.

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Oh FFS. Fox should have just bid for the whole thing.

I can't wait to see what combo of idiots Amazon trots out there.

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if they were smart they would get the radio guys

The should "randomly" pair drivers. Like Denny vs Bubba. Make it interesting.

Coming to you next week! Tyler Reddick versus Chris Buescher!

And MLS Leagues Cup

They don't want the whole package with the NFL and CFB in the fall.

Hope it's not going to be the case but looks like another possible snoozer at North Wilkesboro again this year.

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Hope it's not going to be the case but looks like another possible snoozer at North Wilkesboro again this year.

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It's so bizarre because it feels like the exact moment they may have figured out the all star race at Charlotte they began moving it.

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Well, Kyle Busch flat dumped Ricky Stenhouse…

Who promptly parks it in Busch's pit box and gets out and leaves it

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Didn't think Stenhouse did anything wrong.

ETA - I'm a fan of parking in 8's pit stall. lol.

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Stenhouse got into Busch and put Kyle into the wall to start.

Love it.

Well this whole "these red tires will fall off after 50 laps" was a lie.

The question is can Logano make one set work when someone else has 1 new set plus a slightly used one. They just didn't make the compounds different enough.

Rowdy with another love tap to bring out a caution. Spins Ty Gibbs this time.

Wow. Larson was a rocket ship for 10 laps. Then it equalized out.

Decent race. Definitely better than last year.

Now to see if anything happens with Stenhouse and Busch.

Bowyer "Well, he did contact Kyle Busch…right there with his fist."

Stenhouse took a poke at Busch.

Loved seeing Busch crew tossing folks around!

Obviously, NSFW language, but here's the best video of the conversation and punch:

Kyle Busch and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. got into an altercation following the NASCAR All-Star Race 😳

🎥 @Jordan_Bianchi pic.twitter.com/86EA503lCw

— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) May 20, 2024

The fight start pic.twitter.com/B5gZYj4aWB

— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) May 20, 2024

Damn. The honesty outta Buschy kinda hits me in the feels. Gibbs did him wrong, he shouldn’t have ever been let go pic.twitter.com/04hy9lqd5i

— Michael Mrucz (@michael_mrucz) May 20, 2024

From videos of @Jordan_Bianchi @bobpockrass @DaveyCenter @Toby_Christie, here is the best transcript I can come up with. If anyone sees a video of the missing end part, lemme know.

Ricky: "What was that?"
Kyle: (Can't hear)
Ricky: "Where?"
Kyle: "Coming off of 2. You wrecked my…

— Jeff Gluck (@jeff_gluck) May 20, 2024